Gov. Christie's apology news conference and other developments in the George Washington Bridge scandal commanded center stage on the Web for a second day on Thursday. Christie was also in the sights of late-night comics and web sites aimed at 20-somethings that specialize in snark.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart dubbed Christie's nearly two hour news conference "The Neverending Sorry." Stewart hammered Christie for saying that the meanspirited, vindictive and petty tone struck in recently disclosed emails between a top aide and a political appointee is not the tone he has set for his administration. He played a greatest hits reel of Christie's tough guy confrontations with constituents. Stewart concluded "FU Sharp" is the tone that best describes the Christie Administration.

Disclosures of emails implicating a top aide of Gov. Chris Christie in the George Washington Bridge lane-closure scandal exploded on the web Wednesday, drawing national attention to The Record's reporting on the issue.

USA Today says there was probably nothing more damaging Christie's staff could have done to "severely wound" his presidential hopes than worsen the daily traffic nightmare of GWB commuters. "The issue had natural traction in metropolitan New York, where drivers spend most of their waking lives on the nation's most clogged highways, bridges and tunnels," USA Today said. "But what driver in America can't sympathize? Who hasn't wondered if the traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge or the Dan Ryan Expressway is, in fact, some sort of plot?"

The National Review, a leading conservative magazine and website, cautioned Christiethat his political life is at stake. While they complimented his "textbook example of authentic, emphatic expressions of contrition, including a raw, refreshing bluntness about his long ties to the aides in question," at his new conference, they noted that his "biggest challenge will be to convince the public that, as a member of his inner circle plotted the lane closures and quietly celebrated the resultant traffic snarls ... he himself remained ignorant of their misdeeds."

The New York Times focused on Christie's "carefully devised, no-nonsense image" being imperiled by the email disclosures placing the heart of the scandal with one of his top advisers. "For Mr. Christie, the timing of the blossoming scandal is dreadful, disrupting a highly anticipated plan to present the popular governor to the national electorate as a no-nonsense, bipartisan balm to a deeply divided federal government."